Ivan Krastev
Political scientist and president of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia (Bulgaria) and permanent member of the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna. He is a founding member of the board of directors of the European Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the board of directors of the International Crisis Group. He also writes op-eds for The New York Times. The book The Light that Failed: A Reckoning(Allen Lane, 2019), co-authored with Stephen Holmes, won the 30th Lionel Gelber Award. He is the author of After Europe (UPenn Press, 2017); Democracy Disrupted. The Global Politics on Protest (UPenn Press, 2014) and In Mistrust We Trust: Can Democracy Survive When We Don't Trust Our Leaders? (TED Books, 2013). In 2020 he won the Jean Améry Essay Prize. Author of ¿Ya es mañana? Cómo la pandemia cambiará el mundo.
